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We have democratically selected our humble and largely unofficial picks for the best videos ever made and are presenting them here for your viewing pleasure. The following 'best music videos ever' have been sourced from a number of lists, most notably Stylus Magazine, Pitchfork.com and Paste Magazine.
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Gorillaz and Madonna - 2006 Grammy Awards HD
When Madonna first came out and walked behind the fake guitarist that really threw me... I had to take a second to process it.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody [Live - High Definition]
One of the most amazing concerts in history. Freddie Mercury at his best.
![Queen - We Are The Champions [ High Definition ]](http://files.redux.com/images/16ba1f348fcb86db7cd992e547c17021/strip100x75)
![Queen - Another One Bites The Dust [ High Definition ]](http://files.redux.com/images/2628dc67f598114611b9f5c01413fa54/strip100x75)
![Queen - We Will Rock You [ High Definition ]](http://files.redux.com/images/7c2b654dbbd9623fe6ae23aed8c314c2/strip100x75)
![Queen - Under Pressure [ High Definition ]](http://files.redux.com/images/6ad63e4d84db0d0c187675ff3fcdf48a/strip100x75)
![Queen - Brian May Guitar Solo [ High Definition ]](http://files.redux.com/images/b83712b9668ccf9d4f40e9fddfaf99bc/strip100x75)
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Bjork – “All Is Full of Love”
With robots borne straight from Asimov’s own waking dreams, director Chris Cunningham, using little more than shadows and shades of whites and blacks and silvers, crafts an authentic and pure sensuality where none should conceivably exist. What results is one of the most visually stunning and deeply affecting music videos you or I may ever see.
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OutKast - "B.O.B."
The video for OutKast’s “B.O.B.”—that stands for “Bombs Over Baghdad” is a luscious Technicolor feast, exploding vibrant and alive onto the screen. It’s the perfect visual accompaniment to the song’s driving jungle-influenced beats and lightning-speed rhymes—a simultaneous, spontaneous celebration of community and individuality and that utopian place where the two intersect flawlessly. Directed by Dave Meyers.
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Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
Many of the video’s highlights were the results of the Foo Fighters’ expressed desire not to seem sexist or philanderous. Michel Gondry uses the images in the video to craft the persona the Foo Fighters are known by today—which, ironically enough, is that of a playful and extremely easygoing group of fun guys.
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Weezer - "Buddy Holly"
Who better than the 70s to do the 50s? The 90s, of course. Utilizing the speed dial of David Geffen, Weezer got the permission of the whole Happy Days gang—plus the voice of Al Molinaro (who does a shout-out to his hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin)—to impersonate a band playing on a song about a 1950s music star on show from the 70s that was based in the 50s in the 1990s. Directed by Spike Jonze.
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Michael Jackson - "Beat It"
The short film for "Beat It", directed by Bob Giraldi helped establish Jackson as an international pop icon. Both "Beat It" and Thriller are notable for their "mass choreography" of synchronized dancers, a Jackson trademark. The video included around 80 genuine gang members—to add authenticity to the production—and 18 professional dancers.
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Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs it wasn't until after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became regular practice for record companies to produce promo videos for artists' single releases. The video was edited within five hours because it was due to be broadcast the same week in which it was taped.
ElijahPeck:
The song enjoyed renewed popularity in 1992 as part of the soundtrack to the film Wayne's World. The film's director, Penelope Spheeris, was hesitant to use the song, as it did not entirely fit with the lead characters, who were fans of harder rock and heavy metal. However, Mike Myers insisted that the song fit the scene.
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Michael Jackson - "Smooth Criminal" [Moonwalker Cut]
The ten minute long "Smooth Criminal" clip is reminiscent of the musical number known as "The Girl Hunt Ballet" which is featured as the final number in the 1952 musical film The Band Wagon starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. "The Girl Hunt Ballet" is a spoof of Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective novels.
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"Can't Tell Me Nothing" with Zach Galifianakis
This is not going to make any of the "decade lists," however, I love the parody and think it's absolutely hilarious. Hopefully you will too.
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Coldplay - "Strawberry Swing"
A very similar style to the stop motion of "Her Morning Elegance."
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Video for Kwoon's - "I Lived On The Moon" by Yannick Puig
It's a sad story, but with enough hope to really grip you, and beautifully animated.
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Oren Lavie - "Her Morning Elegance"
One of the most original stop motion music videos to date. Celebrating their Grammy nomination, the video was broken down to the original still frames, which are now exhibited online at www.hmegallery.com.
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Nirvana - "Heart Shaped Box"
The final video of Nirvana’s active career and certainly the most affecting, brazenly mixing the tragic (crucifixes, dead fetuses), comic (Cobain’s pratfall, the mimicking crows), and plainly bizarre (the KKK girl and the fat lady in the In Utero suit). There’s plenty here for art snobs and shrinks alike to chew on, thanks to director Anton Corbijin’s beautifully surrealistic vision.
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Sigur Ros – “Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa”
Gorgeously shot Icelandic scenery and children are present and correct, of course. This time though, what magic and hope there is in their world is stamped out as the video proceeds as slowly but inexorably as the song itself towards a conclusion so cruel that it still leaves me gasping for breath to this day.
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Bright Eyes - "At The Bottom Of Everything"
In this wonderfully bizarre video, passengers on a doomed flight chat, share cocktails and make out feverishly as the plane goes down.
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Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
In the exceptionally inventive video for this epic, early-aughties dancepunk anthem, the members of Franz Ferdianand look like surreal gear-cranked cyborgs who’ve crawled inside Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketchbook. This gels nicely with their driving, angular, mathematically precise pop-rock workouts.
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Korn - "Freak On A Leash"
The video features a group of children tresspassing to a cliff to play hopscotch. A security guard notices this and accidentally trips on his way to the cliff and fires his gun. Upon inspection, the bullet exits through the wall and goes flying around unstoppably, ignoring friction and other forces to stop it — destroying everything it tears through (yet does not hit or kill anyone).
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Pearl Jam - "Jeremy"
In Pellington's video, Jeremy is shown being taunted by classmates at school. The final scene of the video shows Jeremy as he takes a gun out of his pocket, puts the barrel of the gun in his mouth, closes his eyes, and pulls the trigger. After a flash of light the screen turns black. The next shot is a pan across the classroom, showing Jeremy's blood-splattered classmates.
ElijahPeck:
In July 1991, a year before the official video was released, Vedder suggested Chris Cuffaro film a music video for the band and gave permission to use any song off Ten. Epic refused to fund the clip, forcing Cuffaro to finance it himself. Cuffaro raised the money by taking out a loan and selling all of his furniture and half his guitar collection. His video was ultimately rejected by Epic. Cuffaro's version was never broadcast, and lived on only in bootlegs.
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ElijahPeck:
MTV restrictions on violent imagery prevented Pellington from showing Jeremy putting the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger at the climax of the video. Ironically, the ambiguous close-up of Jeremy at the end of the edited video, combined with the defensive posture of Jeremy's classmates and the large amount of blood, led many viewers to believe that the video ended with Jeremy shooting his classmates, not himself.
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Jamiroquai - "Virtual Insanity"
The floor appears to move while the rest of the room stays still, allowing for Kay to perform moves not normally seen in music videos. At some points the camera tilts up or down to show the floor or ceiling for a few seconds, and when it returns to the central position, the scene has completely changed.
JanetB:
Would love to view but blocked here due to copyright issues. Anyone know what that may entail?
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Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
The video was based on the concept of a school concert which ends in anarchy and riot. Cobain disliked Bayer's final edit and personally oversaw a re-edit of the video that resulted in the version finally aired. One of Cobain's major additions was the next-to-last shot of the video, which was a close-up of his own face after it had been obscured for most of the video.
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Aerosmith & Run-D.M.C.- "Walk This Way"
The 1986 music video for "Walk This Way" symbolically placed a rock band (assumed to be Aerosmith) and Run-D.M.C. in a musical duel in neighboring studios before Tyler literally breaks through the wall that separates them. The video then segues to the bands' joint performance on stage. The highly popular video was the first rap hybrid video ever played in heavy rotation on MTV and is regarded as a classic of the medium.
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Madonna - "Vogue"
Filmed in black-and-white, the video recalls the look of 1930s Hollywood films with the use of artwork by the Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka and an Art Deco set design. Many of the scenes are recreations of photographs taken by noted photographer Horst P. Horst, including his famous "Mainbocher Corset". Some of the close-up poses recreate noted portraits of such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
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The White Stripes - "The Denial Twist"
Michel Gondry grabs hold of the Late Night with Conan O'Brien set and dives straight down the rabbit hole, emerging in some weird wonderland filled with intriguing optical illusions.
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OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"
The infamous, impressively choreographed and unforgettable treadmill dance that made OK Go a household name.
